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10 ways to make £100 more a monthÂ*-Â*Salary Centre - MSN Money UK
10 ways to make £100 more a month
By James Andrews
January 30 2008
Waiting for that elusive payday can be a long process. Bills, birthdays, parties and the rest keep coming, regardless of how much money you have in the bank.
While people are queuing up to offer advice on how to spend less cash, it's only one way to make sure your overdraft survives intact. The other is to earn more.
So, here at MSN Money, we offer you ways to earn more as well. All the suggestions are real things you can do, in addition to your normal working day and are flexible enough to fit around your social life - as well as available to people in most parts of the UK.
Check now to see if you should be earning more
1. Online tutor
If you are reading this then you have the internet skills to become an online tutor. Pay ranges from £8 to £30 anhour (the average being around £18 an hour). You can arrange your workload to suit you and you don't need to be an academic genius to help people learn. The qualification requirement is generally one level above what you are teaching (i.e. if you have A-level English then you can tutor someone up to GCSE level). As an added bonus, you also get to feel good about yourself for helping someone. More details on becoming an online tutor from LearnDirect.
Online Tutor - learndirect*Careers Advice
2. Mystery shopping
Fancy getting paid to shop? More than that - fancy getting paid to moan about service in shops or restaurants (or the quality of the food). Well you can. Companies need to test the quality and knowledge of their staff, so as long as you don't mind a bit of acting (one of my friends once had to go and buy and engagement ring - don't worry, you get reimbursed for any purchases) you can make money as a "mystery shopper". Generally this is entirely flexible as long as you have access to transport (you get told where to mystery shop and then can carry out the visit whenever you like within a certain time-frame). You can earn more than £10 for each shop you visit and also have food paid for for you and a friend as long as you write a report on the experience afterwards. Check out GFK Mystery shopping for more details.
https://cybershop.gfk.com/Cybershop2...ookieSupport=1
3. Writing
Think you can string a coherent paragraph together? Are you passionate or knowledgeable about a topic? Well write about it. Freelance writers can be very well paid, work in their own time (as long as they meet a deadline) and are in demand. Rates vary, from £1 a word from some national newspapers to 2 pence a word with some websites. Of course websites, magazine companies and other establishments need writers for everything from short-stories to putting together the text on commemorative stamp collections - and not just in the UK. Thanks to the internet you can write for publications in any country where they publish in a language you speak. Here are some useful links about freelancing from the National Union of Journalists.
Jobs in journalism, news and resources for journalists
4. Trader (online)
Everyone knows a version of this story - the person who works two hours a day while lying by their pool in a luxury Monaco mansion. All they do to make their money, we are told, is look for items mis-spelled on eBay, buy them cheap and then sell them on for a profit once they are properly labelled and spelt. Now these stories are generally false, but that doesn't mean you can't make some money from online auction sites yourself. Someone bought (or made) almost everything in your house and when things get old, too small, or just stop interesting you there is generally someone who will buy them for a second time. You could even make a profit selling things you made yourself as a result of a hobby - knitwear, drawings, woodwork and the like - you never know until you put it online (just make sure to label and spell it correctly).
5. Be an extra
Television shows, movies, and even straight-to-DVD releases need people in the background. As most parts of the country have something filmed in them (from Doc Martin in Cornwall to Taggart in Glasgow), you can generally find work nearby. Pay is anything up to £100 a day, with added bonuses for special skills such as dancing, riding or playing a sport or musical instrument on camera. Sign up with an extras agency, although be warned - this is very time consuming and can easily use up a full day. Added perks include being fed, hanging around with celebrities, and even being paid (around £25) for having your hair cut in some cases. Here are some extras agencies to check out.
Casting and Extras Agencies - EntsWeb Directory
6. Delivery person
Early riser? Well for spending an hour of your morning dropping off papers you can earn pretty good money. And you don't necessarily have to wake up early, free property papers and local newspapers are often delivered in the afternoon or at weekends as well. Yes, it might be miserable work in the rain, but for spending an hour walking around streets and lanes near your home you can pick more than pocket change. It's stress-free, you don't lose out on any socialising as you can make your deliveries before work and at minimum wage this will get you more than £100 a month.
7. Barman
Spending time in bars and pubs is something that generally costs you money, but it doesn't have to. With wages of more than £50 for an evening shift available in the cities, it's not a small amount to make for spending a night once or twice a week in a bar - and if it is your local you can spend a quiet Tuesday after work with your friends.
8. Translating
If you can speak a second language (anything from French to Mandarin) you can earn money translating. Working from home you are sent text to translate, either from or to English, and make some money out of translating it. You can either pick jobs from a list of available work or be sent texts to translate by an agency. Of course, the more common the language you speak, the more competition. Pay depends on the number of words and complexity of translation - although for more complex work such as technical/industry specific work then you would probably need to have worked in that industry.
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9. Make your opinion pay the bills
You can make quite a bit of cash from filling in surveys for people, or being interviewed face to face. Some of the quicker online surveys pay just £1 while being part of a focus group can get you up to £50. And if you have specialist knowledge you can get as much as £150 for a face-to-face interview. A quick search can find you surveys online that pay you while Saros Research is associated with the longer face-to-face surveys.
Saros Research Registration Form
10. Medical trials
Okay, this one sounds scary. But it doesn't have to be. Medical trials can be anything from answering questions to testing and tasting food. Of course, you get paid more for the higher-risk stuff, but you are fully informed about what is about to be done to you before they start. Pay is anything up to £100 a day for every day you are involved in treatment. More information on medical trials
Frequently Asked Questions | What Are Clinical Trials? | Will I Get Paid for Volunteering for These Medical Trials?
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